World Diabetes Day

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World Diabetes Day is today! Our lab had three posters at the UF poster session.

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Ocular Engineering Symposium

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Dr. Otto was invited to speak at the Ocular engineering symposium at UF.

Renae Burke

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Renae Burke
Biomedical Engineering

Renae Burke is a fourth year double major in biomedical engineering and violin performance. She is currently working on intracortical magnetic stimulation and is interested in researching bidirectional brain-machine interfaces.

Enabling Students With Learning Disabilities/ADHD to Outperform In Your Class

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Dr. Scott Thourson is presenting a teaching workshop open to faculty or people in charge of communication in COE, BME, MSE, MBI, (non-STEM just as important!). Please register and attend to learn more about working with these students!

Workshop title: Enabling Students With Learning Disabilities/ADHD to Outperform In Your Class

Date: Thursday, November 14th, 2:30-4:00pm

Location: 201 Bryant Space Science Center​

Description: Individuals with learning disabilities (LD) and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) include some of the most talented thinkers in society. The opposite observation might be made when those individuals are undergraduate students in a classroom. In this workshop, participants will learn how their classroom environment might affect the performance of students gifted with LD/ADHD. As someone with ADHD, I will explain how LD/ADHD manifests in college and present examples from my own experience as a student and instructor. Activities: case studies, self-evaluations, and group discussions that revolve around teaching undergraduate students with LD/ADHD.

Registration: https://uf.tfaforms.net/337&tfa_30=true&tfa_27=a0Q4M00000Jlio1

Alexander (Xander) S Lim

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Alexander (Xander) S Lim 
Biomedical Engineering
alexanderlim@ufl.edu | LinkedIn
Peripheral nerve interfaces/MARTEENI


Alexander completed his BS in biological engineering and brain & cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016. Post graduation, he worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. W Malik on quantitative biomarkers for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders. His interest in peripheral nerve interfaces stems from previous collaborations with Drs. E Bizzi at MIT and N Thakor at JHU/SINAPSE. Currently, he is co-advised with Dr. Christine Schmidt (Biomimetic Materials & Neural Engineering Lab) on the collaborative tissue-engineered electrode nerve interface (TEENI) project with aims for less-invasive alternatives for functional restoration.

Fun facts: is originally from Los Angeles, is the first in his family to pursue higher education, is the oldest of five siblings, uses a Nikon (DSLR and film), and prefers to be called Xander. He is a nice person, so don’t be afraid to approach him.

BMES 2019

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The 2019 annual biomedical engineering society meeting was a great conference! We had a large group presenting NPRlab research.

What You Need Before You Proceed

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Dr. Scott Thourson, an NPRlab post-doc, recently gave an amazing presentation to the graduate school entitled ‘What You Need Before You Proceed: Finding and Filling the Gaps in Your Academic Training.” He helped us identify deficits in our training and make a plan to proceed and succeed academically.

See the full lecture here.

Anastasia Valimaki (2019-2020)

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Ramya Saldanha

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Ramya Saldanha
Biomedical Engineering
rsaldanha@ufl.edu

Ramya is a third year biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida. She is researching the effects of electrode site placement on intracortical microstimulation and is interested in attending med school after graduation.

Jason Marshall presented in SNIP poster session

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Jason Marshall, an undergraduate Neuroscience student from Amherst College in Massachusetts presented his work on polymerizing PEDOT: PSS in agarose hydrogels at the SNIP poster session.